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I. ELLIOTT Oct. 19 1926.

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2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed March 15, 1924 sponding forward and rearward sprocket 4 wheels through the baking chamber and ries a pair of sprocket wheels 12 at the opposite'sides of the'baking chamber. Simi lar sprocket Wheels (not shown) are provided on a shaft 13 extending across-theoven at the rear 'end, the corresponding sprockets on the shafts '10 and 11 being con nected by an endless chain or similarly driven device 14, disposed one at each side of the baking chamber. .The upper stretch of each chain passes between the correalong the floor thereof, and the lower stretch passes below the flue 4 in a passage which is provided in the interior of the oven.

A track rail15 is provided upon the floor of the bakingchamber at each side beneath the chains, so as totake up the wear of the chains and form tracks therefor. The shaft 13 is mounted in bearing blocks 16 which are normally pressed by suitable spring devices 17 in. a direction to tension the chains 14 and maintain them taut. An adjustable abutment 18 at each side pro vides means for variably compressing the springs.

Approxlmately ,onehalf of each chain is connected by slats 19 to a corresponding'part of the other chain, the slats forming a flexible floor or conveyor supported by and carried with the chain, so that when the sections of the chain which are connected by the slats are within the'baking chamber, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the slats will form a floor or conveyor for the support of the pans A carrying foodstuffs: to be baked.

)Vhen the chains are operated to carry the thisposition of the conveyor, the floor or hearth 2 is exposed so that articles B such as Vienna and rye bread, may be placed thereon and baked as usual in peel ovens.

A gear 19 is mounted upon one end of the shaft 10 for driving thesame, and is in turn connected to any suitable source of power such as an electric motor (not shown),

so that when the motor is operated the chains. at opposite sides of the baking chamber will be operated between the two relative positions shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The shaft 10 at the same end is also provided with a small pinion 20 (see Fig. 4) and this pinion meshes with a larger gear 21 carried by a stub shaft 22. The gear 21 carries an operating pin 23which is adapted to engage, and'rotate through a small angle, a lever 24, pivoted at 25, at approximately the completion of a. complete revolution in each di rection. A. pair of contact or switch levers 26 and 27 are provided with rollers 28 and 29, respectively, which are adapted to be engaged by the'lever 24 when the latter .is rotated in opposite directions. Each lever 26 and 27- is adapted when free to complete respectively a circuit between contact terminals 30 which controls the operation of the motor in one direction, and contact terminals 31' which controls operation of'the motor in the opposite-direction.

The ratio between the gears chains are moving between the relative positions shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and accordingly, at the end of each rotation of the gear 21, one of the limit switches 26 or 27 will'be operated to prevent further operation of the chains. or conveyor inthe same dire'c:

tion beyond the position shown in Figs; 2 and 3. At the same time the other limit switch which controls travel of the conveyorin the opposite direction will notbe inter.- fered with. It is, therefore, merely necessary to start the motor running in either direction and the limit switches will stop An arm 34 is connected to. each bracket.

member so as to extend forwardly therefrom, and each arm at its free end has connected thereto, by a pivot 35, a second arm 36 which is in turn connected at its other end by a pivot rod 37 to thecorresponding end of the arm at the other side of the oven. A shelf member 38 extends'across the front of the oven and is pivoted upon the rod 37. One of the pivots 35 may comprise a clamping screw controlled byan operating arm or button 39, sothat when the arms 36 are swung about the pivots 35 they may be clamped in various angular 20 and 21, is such that the gear 21 will be given ap" proximately a complete rotation while the positions by a tightening of the button '39. I

lVhen the oven is. to be utili.zed for' the baking of pan goods, as shown in Figs; 1

and 2, the arms 36 will be clamped inthe positions shown in Figs. 1 and 2, so that the shelf 38 will rest upon the u Jp'er'fedge' of the shield 33 and be supporte by the arms ga ses .316 inanfincl ined p si'tionwithian edgei i U wardly over pulleys 44 andthen downward shelfis' 'in thisfposit ll'it willrec'eiye the or articles from; the jc'enveyor' as the, articles fall from uiecoaveyor i L i W'henthe: conveyorisin the position shown inFig. 3, the arms 36 may be adjustedtothe position shown in Fig.3, so as to place the. shelf'381n the position shown in this figure where it forms a substantial forward contmuation of the floor or hearth 2"of the baking chamber. This shelf then facilitates insertion and removal of the articles th being baked.-

. A shield 40 is hinged-as at41 to the oven at a point above the baking chamber so as to swing downwardly into proximity to the upper, edge of the shield 38 and thus substantially close the baking chamber Cables 48 are connected to the lowerends of the shield 40 at opposite sides, and pass uply, carrying counter-weights 45 at the lower ends. The counter-weights 45 are 'of such a 'sizethat the shield 40 will be' 'substantially balanced so as to remain in any angular position to whlch t is ildJLlStBCl.

A heat or bafile wall 46 is mountedupon a shaft 47 which is rotatably supported in, "the brackets 32 and extends across'the open end or door of the baking oven. The shaft 47, at one end, carries an operating handle 48 (see Fig. 1). In Figs. 2 and 3, the baff fie wall; is shown in its upper position .en-. abling access to be hadv to the baking cham-. her for an inspection of the baking operaj tion or the insertion or removal of articles being baked. The bafile wall may be swung downwardly so as to substantially close the door opening of the baking chamber. A set screw 49 (see Fig. 5) is provided in one of the brackets 32 so as to force a friction peg 51 against the shaft 47 for the purpose" of creating friction thereon suflicient to' hold the shaft in different adjusted positions.

'In the operation of the oven, the baking v of pan goods "will be first explained. As-- suming the conveyor to be in the position the conveyor ,into the baking chamber, When the slat connected: section, of; the con veyor has moved entirely into the baking chamber, as shown in Fig. 2, the pin 23 1 will. engage and operate the lever 24 to open thereof is template; mattersoperated inv the reverse direction to move the slats forwardly in-the bakingchamber.

As the slats move around the sprocket wheel the pans carried thereby. will slide off upon the shelf 38 from which they may be'removed by the-attendants. When all of the slats have moved out of the baking chamber and into the position shown in Fig. 3, the p1n23, will have engaged with the other p side of the .lever24 and operated it ina in Fig. 4, and thus open the circuit'of the same direction. This automatically stops the conveyor in this position. The conveyoi may thenbe operat'edin a reverse direction to carry the slats again into the baking oven for anew baking operation, as before explained.

For the baking of hearth products the 1 reverse direction tolift the-armQG, as shown .4 5 7 motor controlling further rotation in the Y shelf 38' is placed in the position shown indotted linesin Fig. 2 and full lines in Fig.- 3, sofas to form a forward continuation of the baking hearth, it being assumed that the conveyor is in the nosition shown in Fig. 3: The articles to be baked directly upon the hearth are then placed in'the oven upon the. hearth by peeling and maybe removed'in'the I in connection with peel ovens. v

It will be observed that with this improved oven the conveyor may be utilized manner commonly adopted for pan baking so as to-have all the advantages of a'continuous' or conveyor type V of oven, and the feeding and delivery occurs from the sameor forward end. Also the f p device maybe set so asto expose the hearth for use in pee]. or direct hearth baking.

Consequently one oven of this type will enable one to bake all kinds of foodstuffs in the desired manner.

. It will be understoodthat various changes in the details and arrangement of parts,

pose of explaining the nature of the invention, may be made by those skilled in they art within the principle and scope of the invention, as expressed 'in the appended In a bakers oven, a baking chamberhaving a charging door and a baking hearth,

a conveyor having two sections which are 'mo'vable alternately into and out of the bak ing chamber during the travel, one of the sections having means for supporting and conveying articles into and out of the bak herein described and illustrated for the pur- V ing chamber as it is moved into and out of baking, and into a'position to receive the said chamber, the other section being open baked articles from the conveyor. when the 10 to expose the hearth for direct hearth bakconveyor is moving in a directionto carry ing when it is Within the chamber, and a the baked articles thereon ont of the'oven. charging and delivery plate, mounted for In Witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe movement into a position to form a substanmy signature.

tial continuation of the hearth when the latter is exposed by the conveyor for hearth V d d IRWIN ELLIOTT. 

